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Word: sickening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY NOW AND THEN a film comes along that arouses a good deal of disagreement among both critics and the general audience. The axiom holds true for films, as for everything else, that which one man loves may well sicken another. This sort of critical and public debate should be encouraged; after all, it makes for a better-informed audience and we can only hope that a better-informed audience will demand and eventually get better films...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Missing the Mark, Italian Style | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

...also produced a fire retardant, Firemaster, the only commercial product in the United States that contains PBB. In September 1973, several bags of Firemaster were mistakenly shipped with the Nutrimaster to the Michigan Farm Bureau for distribution to Michigan's farmers. Within weeks, cattle throughout the state began to sicken...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: To the Ends of the Earth: The Spread of Industrial Poisons | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

...high-protein feed. Their diet is made "hotter" by adding larger proportions of corn, malt, sour-smelling silage, beet pulp, minerals and antibiotics. The animal's metabolism is soon racing so hard to digest the rich fare that if its diet is drastically changed, the steer will sicken and could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Raising Cattle by Computer | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...doing, Mailer destroys Miller by character assasination. In the process of writing his story, the old competitor in Mailer cannot stop himself from taking vicious shots at Miller's intellectual capacity, trying to make Miller's reputation seem inflated. Finally, the liberties that Mailer takes as novelist sometimes just sicken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mailer/Monroe: The Moth and the Star | 8/14/1973 | See Source »

...London's Sunday Times that she had fallen in love with an unidentified male. Elaborating on her feelings, she continued: "I also simper and maunder. I am no better than an imbecile. I have collapsed into gaping idiocy. Give me excess of it, that the appetite may sicken and so die. I am treacherous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 17, 1972 | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

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